Motivational Quotes

Age and aging

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Age and aging

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

O'Casey, Sean

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Turner, Tina

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made.

Browning, Robert

Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Hoffer, Eric

Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.

Plato

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Hardy, Thomas

10.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

Tholuck

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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Maugham, W. Somerset

14.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

Palmer, R.

15.

To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

Bonstettin

16.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

Hershfield, Harry

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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Swift, Jonathan

18.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Dressler, Marie

20.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Meir, Golda

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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Richter, Jean Paul

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In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Kangas, Steve

24.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Day, Doris

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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Senn, J. P.

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Chopra, Deepak

27.

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.

Burke, Billie

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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Churchill, Winston

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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age.

Einstein, Albert

31.

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

Burroughs, John

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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Brown, Captain J.

33.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Woolf, Virginia

34.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Curtis, George William

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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Ullman, Samuel

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

Proverb, Chinese

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

Golding, William

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Live your life and forget your age.